2012-2013 COLLOQUIUM LECTURE SERIES ARCHIVE

Provided below are the 2012-2013 academic year College of Optical Sciences Colloquium lectures. The current lecture series can be found on the main Colloquium page.

2012-2013

  • Colloquium: Thomas L. Koch
    Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Thomas L. Koch, dean of the College of Optical Sciences and professor of optical sciences and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona, will present "Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in Photonic Integrated Circuits."

  • Colloquium: Eli Yablonovich
    Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Eli Yablonovich, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the National Science Foundation Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, will present "The Optoelectronic Physics That Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells."

  • Colloquium: Ian Galbraith
    Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Ian Galbraith from Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom) presents "Optical Physics in Organic Semiconductor Molecules."

  • Colloquium: Aristide Dogariu
    Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Harnessing Light for Sensing and Guiding at Mesoscales

  • Colloquium: David J. Brady
    Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    David J. Brady, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor at Duke University, will present "Gigapixel Television."

  • Colloquium: A. Mysyrowicz
    Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    A. Mysyrowicz, director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research (France) and associate professor at the Superior National School of Advanced Techniques ParisTech (France)

  • Colloquium: Mary A. Peterson
    Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Mary A. Peterson from the University of Arizona will present "Memory Influences on Figure-Ground Perception: Evidence for Reentrant Processing."

  • Colloquium: Kyle J. Myers
    Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Kyle J. Myers, Ph.D. 1985, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will present "Regulatory Science Challenges in Medical Imaging."

  • Colloquium: Paul Chaikin
    Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Paul Chaikin from New York University will present "Living Crystals from Light-Activated Artificial Surfers."

  • Colloquium: Stanley Pau
    Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm

    Stanley Pau will present "Micro-devices and Optics for Applications in Sensing, Imaging and Energy Conversion."

  • Colloquium: Marcos Dantus
    Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm

    Marcos Dantus from Michigan State University and Biophotonics Solutions Inc. will present "Applications Based on Control of Nonlinear Optical Interference Using Shaped Ultrafast Laser Pulses."

  • Colloquium: CANCELED
    Thursday, February 7, 2013  
  • Colloquium: CANCELED
    Thursday, February 14, 2013  
  • Colloquium: Peter Smith
    Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Peter Smith from the University of Arizona will present "The University of Arizona: Built Space Cameras."

  • Colloquium: Andrea Alù
    Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Andrea Alù from the University of Texas, Austin, will present "Plasmonics and Metamaterials to Control and Manipulate Light."

  • Colloquium: Michelle Povinelli
    Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Michelle Povinelli from the University of Southern California will present "Light Interaction with Nanostructured Materials: Photovoltaics and Self-Assembly."

  • Colloquium: CANCELED
    Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  • Colloquium: Khanh Kieu
    Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Khanh Kieu will present "Generation of Ultrafast Optical Pulses and Applications."

  • Colloquium: Axel Scherer
    Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Axel Scherer from the California Institute of Technology will present "Nanofabricated Silicon Devices: Nanosensors and Nano-Spectroscopy Systems."

  • Colloquium: Jerome V. Moloney
    Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Jerome V. Moloney will present "Optically Pumped Semiconductor Disk Lasers."

  • Colloquium: Günter Steinmeyer
    Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Günter Steinmeyer from the Max Born Institute (Germany) and the Tampere University of Technology (Finland) will present "Nonlinear Optics of Supercontinua: From Rogue Waves to the Event Horizon."

  • Colloquium: Philippe Jacquod
    Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm

    Philippe Jacquod from the University of Arizona will present "Wave Interferences in Random Lasers."